Poetry: Nomi Stone, “Why I Came”
Culture • October 2009 • Views: 397
Why I Came
Nomi Stone
Djerba, Tunisia
Under amber, the nearly lost
city: I dream myself
here, to enter how I imagine
we had once lived, until our cities
were paved over, stones
from our graves laid
in the new city’s walls.
I came because here,
amber flooded and
cooled over the homes, over
hands blessing candles inside.
And breath from the lost
cities kept moving in living
throats.